Laura Kaufman
Kaufman joined the faculty at Columbia University in 2004
She found that APOBEC3G evolved long before there was evidence of HIV-like viruses in primates.
Funnily enough, other than making it clear this person "grew up" in Lebanon and later moved to the US to study and work, the source provided (later) is entirely silent on matters of her own citizenship, or indeed, that of her parents.Hana El-Samad is a Lebanese-American scientist